Tutorial 1: Markets and Organizations Q1. Case Study [pic] Managing external influences First Group (First) is the UK’s largest transport operator‚ employing more than 137‚000 people in the UK and the USA. In the UK‚ it runs rail services carrying around 275 million passengers a year. It is the UK’s largest bus operator and also runs a rail freight business. In the US‚ it operates school transport for nearly four million students a day. The company is seeking to extend it operation in UK
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[pic] ----------------------- Substitutes Beer‚ Milk‚ Coffee‚ Bottled Water‚ Juice‚ Tea‚ Powdered Drinks‚ Wine‚ Sports Drink‚ Distilled Spirits‚ Tap Water etc… There is a wide array of substitutes that consumers may choose. These products are widely and easily available at low price. Hence the threat posed by these substitutes exist at a high level. However these risks can be mitigated through diversification and offering more products in the portfolio. Since the range and the number of
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Strategic Management of TESCO supermarket: PESTEL analysis‚ Porter ’s 5 Forces analysis‚ Critical success factors‚ SWOT Analysis‚ VALUE CHAIN analysis‚ TESCO ’S strategic options‚ Core Competences & Cultural Web. IINTRODUCTION The food and drink retail sector represents the largest industry in the UK‚ providing employment for over three million people in primary production‚ manufacturing and retailing. In 2003 retail accounted for 9% of gross domestic product (Datamonitor‚ 2003). In recent years
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PEST ANALYSIS RESTAURANT MARKET Aims of the Presentation To explain the meaning of a PEST analysis. To identify and analyse external factors that affect the restaurant industry. To conduct original research into PEST factors. Task 4 Assignment: Develop a marketing mix for a new/existing chocolate or soft drinks product. Task 4: Conduct a PEST analysis‚ which analyses the external factors‚ which affect the market for your product/service. Grading Criteria: AO4 Explain
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PESTAL Analysis of Serena Hotel Political Pakistan has experienced many political upheavals during the last year of a century and the one thing‚ which the country was lacking‚ is political stability. This had a direct effect upon the policies of the businesses especially hotels management. Although tourism growth was affected all over the world after the 9/11 incident‚ and it had a far reaching negative impact on Pakistan’s economy in general and Gilgit Baltistan in particular‚ as its economy
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Smith‚ CIO of “Sun drinks” company From: Subject: Proposal for a new soft drink advertising campaign Date: 25th March 2010 Introduction The aim of this proposal is to suggest some ways of advertising a new soft drink that I found most effective and salutary. It also contains comments on the use of the media‚ famous personalities and free gifts. Background The main reason I have decided to run a competition is that I have a great experience of advertising soft drinks. There are a lot of
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The main legal factor that is present in this situation is the contract and whether or not it is presented as valid or it is presented as not valid. The soft drink company in this case made a deal with customers and stated that whichever customer was able to attain 7 million company points would be eligible for for the Harrier jet‚ making this deal sound very appealing to customers indubitably. The company probably created this deal with customers because they needed higher sales and so they probably
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Mrs. Acres Homemade Pies and Soft Drink Joaquin Angles BUS 508 The Business Enterprise 04/23/2010 The company produces specialty pies and sells them in local supermarkets and select family restaurants. In each of the first six months‚ Shelly and three part time employees sold 2‚000 pies for $4.50 each‚ netting a profit of $1.50 per pie. The pies were quite successful and Shelly could not keep up with demand. The company ’s success results from a quality product and productive employees who
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INTRODUCTION This chapter identifies the main external influences on the UK market for private security and fire protection‚ using the four headings of a PEST analysis: political‚ economic‚ social and technological. Where such influences have more than one dimension‚ they are considered under the heading that is considered to be the most relevant. POLITICAL FACTORS The Terrorist Threat Precautions against terrorist attacks have been stepped up since the events of 11th September 2001‚ and
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2.1.1 POLITICAL The hotel industry had evolved very rapidly since the opening policy in 1978‚ after that the economy has gradually transformed to a market-oriented one. The reform has created a much better business environment for the hotel industry development (Hornsby‚ 1990). According to Kotler (1996)‚ The political environment is strongly affect hospitality industry‚ political environment is made up of laws‚ government agencies and pressure groups influence and limit the activities of various
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